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- My Dear Friends Featuring Ian O'Brien
- The Guitar Song -Original Mix-
- The Session -Kuniyuki'S Piano Mix- Featuring Henrik Schwarz & Yoshihiro Tsukahara
- Dear African Sky -African Dub Mix- Featuring Omar Guaindefall
- One Round -Original Mix- Dedicated To Shou
- You Get Me Featuring Josée Hurlock
- Free
- Flying Music -Short Version- Featuring Alex From Tokyo, Shuichiro Sakaguchi & Nobuhiko `ebizo` Tanuma
- Think Of You -Piano Re-Edit
- Touch
- All These Things Featuring Josée Hurlock
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 Recently, every time we get new music the first thing I look for is new releases from the Japanese label Mule Musiq. The reason for this is quite simple - I have yet to be disappointed by its output, which is often very different from the lackluster electronic music I’m usually bombarded by. However, this in no way means that electronica does not play an important role in this case. For Mule, it has become an useful instrument by way of combining very different styles of music into a concise and bold hybrid.
The specialist in such procedures turned out to be Kuniyuki Takahashi, who surely must be one of the label’s key artists. Need proof? Look no further than his second original album ‘All These Things’ (his debut was 2006’s ‘We Are Together’) which was inspired by his broad experience with working with artist from a number of continents. The album is a collection of outright magical tracks filled with brilliant piano bits and melodies played on the string of guitars, which would most probably be applauded by Pat Metheny himself. Every leg of this 11 number journey is a different dimension of bliss and relaxation. At times, it is even spiced up a bit by some eroticism in the form of female vocals or subtle basslines, while at others it is rather melancholic and contemplative. The foundations of the record are beats which are somewhere between nu jazz and deep house, which not so long ago was the author’s specialty.
I consciously allowed myself to refrain from naming any tracks in particular, because overlooking any one of them would be rather careless to say the very least.  Comments[0]
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Review: Kuniyuki Takahashi - All These Things
